AN AGE UNDREAMED OF. AN AGE OF MYSTERY AND MAGIC. OF SWORDS AND SORCERY.
A fearsome swordsman, Kain, crosses the barren wastelands and comes upon a town where two arch enemies fight incessantly for control of the town's only well.
PAY TO GET IN. PRAY TO GET OUT!
Two young couples on a double date go to a local carnival. As a prank, they decide to spend the night in the funhouse. When they witness the brutal murder of a fortune teller, they suddenly find themselves in grave danger.
TOO HOT TO HANDLE- TOO CUNNING TO CATCH- NO PRISON COULD HOLD THEM!
A group of female miners get fed up with their life and decide to try crime. After successfully pulling off a robbery, they are busted by narcs when they try to sell cocaine. They get sent to a prison where the warden uses the prisoners for her own deviant pleasures.
All new! All grue! It's the long-awaited sequel to RetroFan and Cryptology contributor Mark Voger's Rondo Award-winning book Monster Mash: The Creepy, Kooky Monster Craze in America 1957-1972, which redefined Monster Kid fandom with a visually immersive graphic approach. This companion book revisits the period, while examining the literary and cinematic roots of its fictional precedents (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Bram Stoker's Dracula); early silent films (Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu); the golden age of monster movies (with such stars as Lon Chaney Sr., Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Chaney Jr.); the 3-D and teenage monster movie trends; the Edgar Allan Poe adaptations and Hammer Studios releases of the period; the monsters of Sixties TV; the eye-popping toys, memorabilia and comics; and the aftermath of the influential Monster Craze. It features interviews with filmmakers such as Ray Harryhausen (20 Million Miles to Earth), Roger Corman (The Pit and the Pendulum), and stars like Gloria Stuart (The Invisible Man), Ricou Browning (Creature From the Black Lagoon), Haruo Nakajima (Godzilla), Jonathan Haze (Little Shop of Horrors), Hazel Court (Curse of Frankenstein), Kathryn Leigh Scott (House of Dark Shadows), Robert Quarry (Count Yorga, Vampire) and many others. No monster fan should be without this treasure trove of terror!
Time-trip back to the frightening era of 1957-1972, when monsters stomped into the American mainstream! Once Frankenstein and fiends infiltrated TV in 1957, an avalanche of monster magazines, toys, games, trading cards, and comic books crashed upon an unsuspecting public. This profusely illustrated, full-color hardcover covers that creepy, kooky Monster Craze through features on Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, the #1 hit "Monster Mash," Aurora's model kits, TV shows (Shock Theatre, The Addams Family, The Munsters, and Dark Shadows), Mars Attacks trading cards, Eerie Publications, Planet of the Apes, and more! It features interviews with James Warren (Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella magazines), Forrest J Ackerman (Famous Monsters of Filmland), John Astin (The Addams Family), Al Lewis (The Munsters), Jonathan Frid (Dark Shadows), George Barris (monster car customizer), Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (Rat Fink), Bobby (Boris) Pickett ("Monster Mash" singer/songwriter) and others, with a Foreword by TV horror host Zacherley, the "Cool Ghoul."
https://forcesofgeek.com/pre-order-mark-vogers-son-of-monster-mash-coming-from-twomorrows-publishing/Open linkView original on piefed.socialWhen her sister and best friend get murdered by white slavers, a female special ops agent vows to take revenge. She becomes.. Lady Ramboh.
DRIVE IN - FREAK OUT!
It's the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman has planned the ultimate marathon of lost film prints to unleash upon his faithful cinephile patrons. Four films so rare that they have never been exhibited publicly until this very night!
TONIGHT.. SHE WILL LOVE AGAIN— AND KILL AGAIN..
A scientist is using alien microbes in his experiments but he dies before the work is finished. An aging actress injects herself with the microbial serum, hoping to become young again, but it transforms her into a hideous bug alien instead.
B movie horror king of the late 50s / early 60s, William Castle, produced & directed Vincent Price in The Tingler, a tale of a pathological pathologist who experiments on a deaf-mute woman to prove that death by fright is caused by a parasite attached to our spinal chords whose power can only be suppressed by... screaming!
Castle was renowned for his gimmicks (his own choice of word) to spice up the audience experience of his films. Like a life insurance policy for those who died of fright watching Macabre, or the "Emergo" effect for House on Haunted Hill which turned out to be... a fake skeleton on wires swung around over the audience's heads 😆
For The Tingler, he created the "Percepto" gimmick: surplus military wing de-icing motors attached under about 1 in 10 chairs in the cinemas, activated at key moments by the projectionist to give the "lucky" audience members a startling buzz.
He also hired plants, a woman who would scream and "faint" to be carried out by an "ambulance crew".
Castle was an inspiration to people like John Waters (remember the "Odorama" gimmick in Polyester?), Joe Dante (who referenced The Tingler in Gremlins 2 & made the Castle-inspired Matinee) and even mime legend Marcel Marceau (?!), one of whose last screen appearances was speaking ("oui!") in the documentary Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story.
#ReMonsterdon is a watch party showing films previously seen in the #Monsterdon watch party on Mastodon.
This Sunday 21 June we're watching The Tingler at 7pm GMT/UTC
Buy, rent, stream or download the film, press PLAY at the appointed hour & join in the fun posting on Mastodon with the hashtag #ReMonsterdon
And remember to scream!!!
THERE WAS NOTHING TO HOLD ONTO - EXCEPT EACH OTHER.
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
Alternately known as Baltimore’s Pope of Trash and Prince of Puke, transgressive filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist John Waters is a true American original. Born when Truman was president, and raised in the atomic mid-century Eisenhower era, where rock and rolling teen rebels and anti-communist conservatives collided in a battle for America’s soul, Waters emerged as a paragon of bad taste, combining his love of arthouse and grindhouse cinema into surreal, post-modern film comedies all his own.
https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/john-waters-criterion-hairspray-desperate-living-interviewOpen linkView original on piefed.socialTHE FEAR… THE NIGHTMARE… THE TERROR… THEY WILL NEVER FORGET IT!
Victor Raven, a famous rock star, returns to his childhood home to shoot a music video. Believing his presence is responsible for the return of a monstrous hound that killed folks when he was a kid, the locals decide to take matters into their own hands.
